Hi, I’m Terry.

I design and build products in Vancouver. I take ideas from first sketch to something people actually use.

Portrait of Terry Mota in glasses, printed in a grainy photocopy style.
Usually this happy. Coffee helps.

The boring parts, done right.

I like the whole product done right, not just the nice screens. Empty states, errors, permissions, the parts users actually hit.

Good design should feel invisible. When form and function are the same decision, nobody notices the design. They just notice it works.

People say I bring energy to a team, and I finish what I start.

Terry at his desk in front of a monitor showing a design file, with a green desk lamp beside him.
Checking the edge cases nobody asked about.

Ideas, shipped.

I turn my own ideas into real products with AI. Serpentime is my iOS app, live on the App Store. I’ve also shipped a few games.

AI handles the speed. I handle the taste.

Terry holding a phone that shows the Serpentime app.
Serpentime, designed and built by me.

Off the clock.

Lifting, rolling, and whatever series everyone is talking about this week.

Terry and his jiu-jitsu master smiling at the academy, holding a belt between them.
Jiu-jitsu, with my master.

Looking for my people.

A team that cares about the work and about each other. One that values design and uses AI to build better, not to think less.

Terry with a design team at a table covered in notebooks with icon sketches, after a workshop he ran.
Teaching an iconography workshop to the design team in Shenzhen.